Tuesday, August 24, 2010

If you've kept up with the newspaper series "Agents' Secrets: Junk Science, Tainted Testimony at the SBI," you already know that there's deep trouble at the State Bureau of Investigation and particularly with the shoddy work performed by blood and bullet analysts in the SBI crime lab and misleading or distorted courtroom testimony by agents. The previous crime lab director is being reassigned, the former SBI director has been given another job, an analyst has been suspended and a new SBI director has been brought in.

Turns out the SBI is looking for a few good people to work there, too. This ad has appeared in the Raleigh classifieds:

NC Department of Justice is currently recruiting SBI Agents. Applications will be accepted from August 12 thorugh September 22. Refer to website: www.ncdoj.gov for complete information.

(You'll have to hunt a little to find the SBI connection about the jobs).

Doesn't say, but I'm guessing honesty, integrity, science background, competence and high ethical standards would be a big help for a candidate.

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Jack Betts is an Observer associate editor who has written
about North Carolina since graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in 1968. A former
Pentagon photographer and Washington correspondent for Landmark newspapers,
Betts was Raleigh Bureau Chief for the Greensboro Daily News and editor of
North Carolina Insight magazine before joining the Observer in 1992.